OT: mail server

Rumor has it that Patrick may have mentioned these words: qmail. There has *never* been a "user-permissions" exploit (as in any user being able to gain any permissions to any other user, including root) and the few bugs that have been found generally just make it die. There was a new bug that was just found in it - if a user sends a mail with a header line longer than 2Gbytes, it'll crash that particular process, and I think the mail is lost to the ether.[1] All other mails will still be delivered fine, tho. Why is the most secure MTA not included with every Linux distro? DJB's license is (at best) wonky, to preserve his codebase & help alleviate techsupport nightmares, and as it's not "Open Source" with fully redistributable binaries, none of the linux vendors (except Gentoo, which compiles stuff on the fly) will touch it. http://www.qmail.org/ && http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html for more info. Laterz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger [1] If you have people sending you 2G Header lines, you have a lot bigger problems than one crashed qmail-smtpd process... -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers zmerch(a)30below.com What do you do when Life gives you lemons, and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????